The state media always use the semantics of a conquering hero at war for us. That is the BIG LIE at work.(the NYT borrowed it from the communist tactics of Uncle Joe). Since last July when Palin's face-book nailed the evil secrets contained in Obama's carefully designed 2400 pages of massive socialized medicine, we have seen only Obama's courageous fighting face on every TV broadcast with the media's help repeatedly croaking the LIE that the GOP has no plans to offer. No questions to Obama have been allowed from the GOP and the Tea Party guys for those 8 months until a few minutes last week.To question the big lie in the Media you had to yell out at Obama during a STU speech. So now the Captain's courageous image is said to be going to fight against the will of the people by cheating on the Senate's procedural safeguards to tell the Massachusetts voters to all go to hell. He is a one slimey POS.

I knew they couldn't distinguish the truth if somebody hit them with it, but even if Ann fat-fingered the title, it still says something interesting about how people have come to view the contact the Gray Lady has with American culture.

PS I thought he'd been driving for over a year. Reminds me of the somnambulists you get stuck behind on a one lane road. (Don't get me started about the damned cowpaths they call roads in Ohio)

Forget about reconciliation. If the House passes the Senate bill (remember the bill with the excise tax on so-called Cadillac plans, the Cornhusker kickback, the LA purchase), it's over. Obama signs the bill and ObamaCare has just been rammed down our throats.

I hope Barry got him several dozen cartons of cigarettes for his Maoist Long March thru the American system of free enterprise. The locals have stopped cooperating in their own destruction just to see his loving smile everywhere. The jig is up for this fake American holding our White House temporarily.

Meanwhile, some whack job opens fire on Pentagon cops and the NY Times closes the story with this:

"Virginia, which has some of the most lax gun laws in the nation, has been drawing criticism from gun control advocates lately by pushing to expand gun rights. The state’s General Assembly approved a bill in mid February allowing people to carry concealed weapons in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, and the House of Delegates voted to end a 17-year-old measure forbidding people from buying more than one handgun a month."

If so, then only because it is designed to increase overall policy costs, and therefore if rate of profits as a percentage of revenues stays constant, then the absolute amount of profits should increase.

Not quite sure what we are ultimately going to see if it passes into law (esp. since we are talking a not-yet-drafted reconciliation bill to modify the Senate version), but I did seem to remember being able to buy insurance across state lines sort of thing at least in some versions, and that is supposed to bring down rates, and therefore profits.

That said, you still seem to be trying to convince us that the reason for our health care problems are because of the rapacious insurance companies - despite their not-so-stellar return on investment over time, as compared to many other industries.

It is not a health care bill. There is nothing in the bill about reforming health care. It is an insurance entitlement bill. It is a big lie.

There is nothing in the bill about regulating doctors, hospitals, medical schools, or any other aspect of the medical profession. There is nothing in the bill about building new medical schools- which require permission from the government. There is nothing in the bill about regulating the malpractice insurance industry and its evil twin the lawyers.

The whole bill is about health insurance entitlement. It is not health care reform. Never was, never was intended to be.

"I'm bleedingI don't think I can go onI'm dyingMy last breath has come and gonePity the manSearching in the skyLooking for a sign from aboveAnd he never caught a glimpse ofWhat he's worthy ofDon't sit and waitFor the world on a plateIt's not a stroke of luck or chanceJust draw a bead on that suckerAnd drive"

I think today's the day everyone woke up and realized that once the House passes the Senate bill, that's the end. There won't be reconciliation. There will be a kabuki dance of amending the bill, but nothing will be agreed upon, and the president will cry crocodile tears and sign the bill as passed by both houses.

House members should understand that as they vote. This is it. There is no Step Two, no Step Three. If they don't think they can live with Step One, they only have one option, to vote it down.